Meet The Team
Haven Care Group has a dedicated and supportive executive management team which includes experience in specialised field areas of Residential Childcare and Business Management:
We have very experienced, qualified and dedicated "Registered Managers" for each provision along with deputy managers who are based in the residential care homes. Our management team that is based in the head office is as below:
Kashif Kiani
Co-Founder & Director
Kashif has over 20 years of Business Management experience, 8 years of this has been adopted across children’s residential services. Kashif holds a Master’s degree in Business Management and is influential in the controlled growth of the business whilst ensuring there is no compromise to the Quality of care provided by the company that we are not only proud of but also known for.
Address: Unit 6 Barberry Court, Centrum One Hundred, Burton On Trent, Staffordshire, DE14 2UE
Tel: 01283-500066, 01283-500067, 01283-617261.
Amir Abbasi
Co-Founder & Director
Amir has years of Business management experience of which a significant portion across Children’s residential services. Amir is involved with HCG from its very early days since 2013 and is a pivotal member of the higher management team and has a clear passion for childcare and a clear vision for the company’s future being an exceptional national provider of residential childcare services.
Address: Unit 6 Barberry Court, Centrum One Hundred, Burton On Trent, Staffordshire, DE14 2UE
Tel: 01283-500066, 01283-500067, 01283-617261.
Address: Unit 6 Barberry Court, Centrum One Hundred, Burton On Trent, Staffordshire, DE14 2UE
Tel: 01283-500066,
01283-500067
Emma Smith
Service Manager
Emma has over 12 years’ experience within a variety of residential settings and has over eight years of service within residential management. Emma has a proven track record of working effectively as part of large multi-disciplinary teams overseeing the care and support of a diverse mix of young people. Emma has experience of managing both Ofsted and CQC registered provisions and achieved and maintained both good and outstanding ratings with Ofsted services.
Emma is dedicated and passionate about the provision of high-quality service for the diverse range of children and young people, who have complex needs due to traumatic childhood experiences and has specialism within the Sexual Trauma field.
Emma has a BTEC National Diploma in early years, NVQ 2 and 3 in Health and Social care and has completed the Diploma Level 5 Leadership and Management.
Lura Dingle
Senior Manager
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Laura have worked in residential childcare setting since 2010, following the attainment of her Social work degree BA honours. She began as a Residential Care worker and over the years, became a senior support worker, deputy manager, a registered manager, duel registered manager and then a regional manager. She is a mother of five children and understand the importance of each child in our care having every opportunity possible to enable them to achieve positive outcomes and a brighter future.
She has a good knowledge base of the legislation we work under, including The Children’s Homes Regulations including the Quality Standards 2015, Children Act and Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018, and ensure that the managers and teams also have a good understanding. She has completed the Level 5 Leadership and Management Diploma, and have attended the NSPCC two day Safeguarding officer course, and Responsible Individual course.
Her skill set, is that she has experienced in Children’s homes, very organised, have a positive approach, communicate clearly and openly, have the ability to motivate and engage people she works with, have a vision that motivates and drives those she works with, have high expectations although attainable, truthful, trustworthy, a good judge of character and dedicated.
Previously as a regional manager, she oversaw twelve children’s homes, and an adventure team from Devises near Swindon, to Macclesfield. This included the supervision, development and support of the homes, registered managers and the staff teams. She was the on-call regional for the country which included 29 homes and two adventure teams to provide advice, direction and support for a diverse number of safeguarding issues.
As a responsible individual of a smaller cluster of homes, she will have more than adequate time to support and develop the managers within the homes and provide an effective support role for them to utilise. She has the capacity to effectively supervise the management of each establishment or agency individually.
Address: Unit 6 Barberry Court, Centrum One Hundred, Burton On Trent, Staffordshire, DE14 2UE
Tel: 01283-500066, 01283-500067
Address: Unit 6 Barberry Court, Centrum One Hundred, Burton On Trent, Staffordshire, DE14 2UE
Tel: 01283-500066, 01283-500067
Loreen Magwenjere
HR Manager
Loreen is a talented and qualified HR Manager achieving her degree at Nottingham Trent University in 2018, who is capable of influencing managers at all levels to deliver best HR practice throughout Haven. Starting out in HR Administration at Resort Group in 2014, Loreen worked her way through Human
Resources before moving into the care sector in 2019, Loreen has progressed through to managing a team of HR assistants and advisors. Loreen has managed complex employee relations issues, change projects and has been leading on the TUPE transfers with an acquisition, recruitment at all levels, trade union consultation and much more. Loreen understands the importance of safer recruitment techniques and is committed to recruiting; selecting and retaining qualified, experienced social care professionals.
